How to Overcome Nervousness of Speaking in a Meeting

Jul 19, 2022

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From childhood to adulthood, from school to workplace, from staff to leaders, I believe that everyone has participated in large and small meetings, and I believe that many people have such troubles: every time they have a meeting, they are always very anxious and afraid. Speaking in public, I can’t control my nervousness as soon as I speak, especially the more formal the meeting, the more people there are, the easier it is to get nervous. Generally, I can only read PPT in a rigid manner, the tone is also mechanical, the ability is 100%, and the expression ability is presented. But only ten.

So why is there such trouble?

I think the main reason is nervousness, and that's one of the barriers to live performance.

Now, let's first understand the reasons behind the tension.

There are 6 major sources of tension, which category do you belong to:

(1) When I was a child, my parents often quarreled, resulting in my lack of strength and reluctance to speak;

(2) When I was a child, my parents often denied themselves in front of others, resulting in lack of self-confidence;

(3) In the past, he had the experience of speaking in public or being made fun of on stage, which caused him to be very injured;

(4) I always feel that I am humble and insignificant, inferior to others, and not confident enough;

(5) I don't know what to say before speaking, and my brain is blank;

(6) Too much emphasis on the results, but more nervous.

So, how can we effectively overcome the problem of nervousness in speaking at a meeting?

How to Overcome Nervousness of Speaking in a Meeting

First, have a positive attitude. You must know that tension is not all bad. Sometimes tension can actually promote the secretion of adrenal hormones in the human body and make the brain nerves more active. If you can use your nervousness as a booster for your speech, it may make your live performance unexpectedly successful!

Secondly, if you are not introverted, you are not good at expressing yourself. When you are nervous because you don’t know how to express what you want to express, there is only one reason. Usually you don’t speak too much. A lot of speaking is the key to solving the problem. For example, practice more oral exercises and tongue twisters, and record one for 100 seconds every day. The expression video, training to speak a sentence clearly, express a point of view clearly, etc.

Again, do the relevant preparations in advance.

When you are in a meeting, it is unlikely that you will be able to speak without leaking what you want to say. You should be prepared in advance! Come prepared! What points do you want to speak? Talk more about the results and less about the process, more about the data and less about the feelings. Is there any conference materials that can be shown to everyone, whether it is necessary to use PPT to display through charts when explaining, and what cases and arguments are used when explaining...

While most people don't prepare well enough before speaking, on the contrary, some famous performers, as well as household name TV presenters, never violate the rule of thorough preparation and rehearsal. This is also one of the reasons why they remain calm and calm on the spot. The more times they accumulate, the better your responsiveness and workplace EQ will be.

How to Overcome Nervousness of Speaking in a Meeting

Therefore, if you are well prepared, you are preparing for success; if you are poorly prepared, you are preparing for failure. To use a saying, you can start from scratch, but you can't be defenseless. If you want to do good work, you must first sharpen your tools. Failure without preparation is not worthy of sympathy, and it is very shameful.

Finally, during the meeting, adjust your state and improve your energy.

There is no problem in private communication. When you speak at a meeting, you will be nervous when you speak in public, and you will not be able to speak out. This is because we are sitting below the comfort zone. You stand on the stage and express yourself in front of the audience. Everyone focuses on you. , this is out of comfort zone!

So your energy will fall. As long as your energy falls, you will easily forget words, get stuck, short-circuit your thinking, and your brain will go blank!

Think about it, everyone, if you encounter an expert when you are expressing in public, that is, someone with a strong energy field, will you be prone to panic and forget your words?

The principle behind this is that the energy field falls!

In addition, speaking in front of people, feeling timid, shy or uncomfortable, is also a psychological problem {poor psychological quality}, such as lack of self-confidence, a lot of scruples, fear of the other party or aura, resulting in psychological obstacles. In fact, everyone will have some such mental state.

So how do you improve or exercise your natural self-confidence or the ability to speak in front of people? The answer is to stabilize your mind first and not be affected by the other party or occasion.

How to Overcome Nervousness of Speaking in a Meeting

The following methods are for your reference:

When we speak in front of the crowd, we must be confident, {speak loudly, and emanate from the dantian}, and the hands must also move naturally.
Let go of your mind and your actions. Don't restrain yourself from some speech habits. Just look straight ahead or the other side.
When encountering strangers or unfamiliar scenes, it is necessary to adopt a familiar attitude or vision, which is to suggest or adjust psychologically.

In front of a person who is afraid or in the aura, you should despise the other person psychologically. In front of the big crowd, you should treat the person as a person or a single person.

Fourth, the mind should be open, the language stress, psychological firmness and cheerful and positive. If you pay attention to your own thoughts and psychology to the stage, and worry about this and that, that is the pressure and tension you have given yourself. Be open, optimistic, positive, and confident in your own psychology and mentality, and don't input bad emotions and panic into yourself.

How to Overcome Nervousness of Speaking in a Meeting

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